Elin Gregory's Blog, page 48
April 14, 2014
A to Z Challenge – L is for
As last year, just click on the image to the left to be taken to the A-Z website and links to other blogs taking part. Good luck to everyone and I hope the inspiration keeps flowing.
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Limey
Limey is a slang term, often pergorative, from Australia, New Zealand and South Africa applied initially to any British seaman and later to any Brit.
This could be because they were small and green by the time they got off the boat in Cape Town, Sydney or Wellington but it isn’t. It’s because of these:
In t...
April 12, 2014
A to Z Challenge – K is for …
As last year, just click on the image to the left to be taken to the A-Z website and links to other blogs taking part. Good luck to everyone and I hope the inspiration keeps flowing.
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Karakoram
One of the most hostile environments in the word, and therefore of endless fascination for the types for whom anything impossible is a challenge.
The Karakoram is part of the huge range of mountains that extends from Afghanistan in the West to China. Everest is the highest mountain in that range but the...
April 11, 2014
A to Z Challenge – J is for …
As last year, just click on the image to the left to be taken to the A-Z website and links to other blogs taking part. Good luck to everyone and I hope the inspiration keeps flowing.
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Jam
Throughout history mankind has had a sweet tooth and has pondered the best method of ekeing out the glut of summer fruit to use during the lean months. Jam was just one of many ideas, but it is a successful one.
However, today I won’t talk about history. Today I will give you a fully illustrated recipe showin...
April 10, 2014
A to Z Challenge – I is for …
As last year, just click on the image to the left to be taken to the A-Z website and links to other blogs taking part. Good luck to everyone and I hope the inspiration keeps flowing.
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Idolatry
This post stems almost entirely from the fact that last years A to Z challenge I post is the most frequently visited on my blog. It gets several hits a week even now and I know exactly why this is, thanks to wordpresses handy search engine term displayer thingy.
It’s because I used the word string “Brad...
April 9, 2014
A to Z challenge – H is for …
As last year, just click on the image to the left to be taken to the A-Z website and links to other blogs taking part. Good luck to everyone and I hope the inspiration keeps flowing.
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Harald Hardrada
I wrote quite a lot yesterday about the travels of Garibaldi and I thought I’d follow it up today with a brief account of another mighty traveller of greater antiquity.
Travelling was almost obscenely uncomfortable and difficult in times past but we shouldn’t think for a moment that hard journeys...
April 8, 2014
A to Z Challenge – G is for …
As last year, just click on the image to the left to be taken to the A-Z website and links to other blogs taking part. Good luck to everyone and I hope the inspiration keeps flowing.
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Garibaldi
They say that the surest road to fame for any commander is to have an item of food or clothing named after him. So if you’re wearing your wellington boots and a cardigan while eating a sandwich, how about rounding your snack off with a Garibaldi, known to all in the UK as ‘squashed fly biscuits”.
Please...
April 7, 2014
A to Z Challenge – F is for …
As last year, just click on the image to the left to be taken to the A-Z website and links to other blogs taking part. Good luck to everyone and I hope the inspiration keeps flowing.
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F is for Feet
Apologies to people who are appalled by feet and for those who are looking at the beads and thinking “oooh cool”, click on the picture and you’ll go to the site. But please read the post first, ‘kay?
I’m not here to try and sell you foot necklaces, or whatever they are. I’m here to tell you that bot...
April 5, 2014
A to Z Challenge – E is for …
As last year, just click on the image to the left to be taken to the A-Z website and links to other blogs taking part. Good luck to everyone and I hope the inspiration keeps flowing.
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E is for Einkorn and Emmer
These two early varieties of wild wheat are still slugging it out for the title of the first crop to be grown by early farmers. Grain from both has been found on Paleolithic sites with no other signs of farming, so it is assumed that grain was collected from wild plants. But it is know...
April 4, 2014
Guest Post – Having Fun With My Characters by Lucy Felthouse
Having Fun With My Characters by Lucy Felthouse
I don’t mean that kind of fun! They get up to that sexy stuff with each other, not me ;)
What I’m talking about, in this instance, is writing real character traits, for example awkwardness, into my story, Letters to a War Zone. My lead characters, Bailey and Nick, are an insurance broker and a soldier respectively. I don’t want to give too much away, but the two of them meet through a website that puts people in pen pal contact with serving soldie...
A t Z Challenge – D is for …
As last year, just click on the image to the left to be taken to the A-Z website and links to other blogs taking part. Good luck to everyone and I hope the inspiration keeps flowing.
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D is for Dog
Well the cats had their turn yesterday so it’s only fair we pay some attention to man’s very oldest best friend.
And the antiquity of that very special relationship is pushed back year by year. The results of DNA analyss and carbon dating of a dog skull found interred in the Altai Mountains of Siberi...
